Folks,

Before starting, let me state UP FRONT that this does NOT apply to several of you. But, from a list of (now) 807 contacts that I have, it does apply to far too many, sadly!

Involvement! Or, the lack thereof. After reading this, you still have the option of being removed from my list of contacts simply by sending me an email with “REMOVE” in the subject line.

What I am about to say might “disturb” some of you but frankly I do not give a damn because it needs to be said. PLEASE SEND THIS on to all your email contacts, and, ask them to do the same. Please?

We face many very serious issues for our nation. Of course, the election for POTUS appears to be front and center. We each have our own opinions about the remaining three candidates. And rightfully so. But there are other – perhaps even more important issues – which we all must face.

It is one thing to use our computers to send volumes of emails about just any topic. Emails are sort of like the old “back fence gossip” except that they are not confined to our back yards; they span the globe. Someone sends and email and, before you know it, it has been to India and back. In many cases, rumor and untruths make their way around the world before the truth gets its boots on.

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: As you read this, think deeply about what is becoming ever-increasingly evident of the inner workings of the many General Courts-Martials being conducted against our troops, such as the Marines of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment (K/3/5 – the “Pendleton 8″ – Hamdaniya), and, Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment (Haditha). Also, the Army Courts-Martials of SSgt Raymond Girouard, Pfc Corey Clagett, Sgt Evan Vela and a host of others.

In each of these cases – totally more than 24 individuals – it would boggle the minds of Americans who have no knowledge of what has (and IS) transpiring here. “Pentagon Influence” is, without question, in play. Even more sorry is the lack of the Main Stream Media in looking into the wrong doings going on by the military proecutors (JAG), the Army’s Criminal Investigation Command (CID) and the Navy/Marine Corps’ Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS)

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The Army has stripped the Asymmetric Warfare Group of its weapon of choice — the Heckler & Koch 416 — saying that its mission requires the unique outfit to carry the standard issue M4 carbine.

The decision reverses a policy that allowed the AWG to buy 416s instead of carrying M4s when it was established three years ago to help senior Army leaders find new tactics and technologies to make soldiers more lethal in combat.

Members of the AWG have declined to comment on the issue, but sources in the community told Army Times that the unit fought to keep its several hundred 416s, arguing that they outperform the Army’s M4 and require far less maintenance.

In a response to a March 6 Army Times query, the Army acknowledged initial approval of the AWG’s move to the 416.

“The AWG is empowered to procure, on a limited basis, select non-standard equipment to assist in identifying capability gaps and advise on the development of future requirements. To this end, the Asymmetric Warfare Group did purchase H&K 416 rifles,” said Army spokesman Lt. Col. Martin Downie.

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The first Marine spec-ops company sent into the fight “lacked in all areas of support” when it got to Afghanistan, an Army logistics officer said Monday.

That only enhanced the animosity special operations forces leaders felt toward Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command’s Fox Company, said Maj. Derik Erickson, the Army logistician assigned to help the company get everything from fuel to food.

“MSOC Fox was, in essence, pushed on [Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force Afghanistan],” Erickson said.

Erickson was the last witness called to testify in the court of inquiry looking into the March 4 incident in which a Fox Company platoon’s convoy was attacked by a suicide vehicle bomb in Nangarhar province.

Marines in the convoy say they came under small-arms fire immediately after the blast and returned fire. They’re accused of indiscriminately firing at and killing more than a dozen Afghan civilians and wounding numerous others.

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By Donna St. GeorgeWashington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 4, 2008; Page A01

The sun had not yet risen in Taji. A young Army soldier lay alone in the dirt. She was alive, but barely. Her ribs had been crushed; her spleen, ruptured. Her right side was marked by the angular tread of a tire.

was 20 years old, the brown-eyed mother of a toddler son, when she was spotted in the headlights of a passing Humvee on a perimeter road at one of the largest U.S. military camps in Iraq.
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